His fourth wife, Frances, was named as corespondent in his divorce from third wife Beatrix.
His marriage to Marie Hemingway only lasted months. Rains and Hemingway did not know each other well before marrying, and it was not until after they were married that he found out she was an alcoholic.
His memorable role as The Invisible Man (1933) was referenced in the opening song to the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
His wife Rosemary died from pancreatic cancer. Rains and his doctor kept the diagnosis from Rosemary until one day she said, "Please don't do that to me any longer. I know what I've got.".
His wife Rosemary had been a Catholic but was not in good standing with the church as she had divorced and remarried. Claude Rains pushed the church to reinstate her, which they did at her funeral.
Interred at Red Hill Cemetery, Moultonborough, New Hampshire, USA
It bothered him that his fifth wife, Agi, would practice piano on a silent keyboard. He couldn't stand to see her hands flying around with no music to listen to.
Left $25,000 to the Actors Fund of America.
On the day his divorce from Frances Propper was final, he drank and drove his Bentley into a ditch, totaling it. When they found him he was passed out drunk on the ground and the car was upside down and on fire.
On the way to their wedding, Rains' soon-to-be-fifth wife Agi made him turn around and go back. She had forgotten to put on the underwear she had worn at her first wedding, which she insisted she wear for luck at her second.
Originally cast as the Duke de Lorca in Adventures of Don Juan (1948).
Played the devil who brought a criminal back to life in Angel on My Shoulder (1946) and played an angel who brought a Boxer back to life in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941).
Rains and fourth wife Frances divorced after Francis began a relationship with a woman's dress shop owner whom she later married.
Rains was almost blind in one eye due to injury received in a gas attack during WWI.
Rains was so stingy with money that constantly complained he was broke, although this was never truly the case.
Rains would throw things when he was angry.
Rains, his wife Frances, and daughter Jennifer lived on a farm in Pennsylvania. When people asked Jennifer what her father did for a living, she would tell them he was a farmer.
Son of Fred Rains.
The first time his daughter ever saw Rains in a film was in 1950 when he took her to see The Invisible Man (1933) in a small theater in Pennsylvania. They sat in the back, and Rains told her all about the making of the film as it played. The other people in the theater were not watching the movie, but rather watching Claude Rains explain to his daughter how he made the film.
Was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before coming to Hollywood, whose students included John Gielgud.